Modeling the morphology and mechanical properties of sheared ternary mixtures

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Travasso, Rui D M ^a   Buxton, Gavin A ^b   Kuksenok, Olga ^a   Good, Kevin ^c   Balazs, Anna C ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; LATTICE SPRING MODEL; SHEARED TERNARY MIXTURES; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMER BLENDS; STIFFNESS; SURFACE TENSION;

MIXTURES;

EID: 21444455063     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1903883     Document Type: Article

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